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Maze game is a video game genre first described by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field is a maze. The player must escape monsters, outrace an opponent, or navigate the maze within a time limit.
Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a creepy face or object, usually accompanied ...
These are games where the player moves through a maze while attempting to reach the exit, sometimes having to avoid or fight enemies. Despite a 3D perspective, the mazes in most of these games have 2D layouts when viewed from above. Some first-person maze games follow the design of Pac-Man, but from the point of view of being in the maze.
Maze, also known as Maze War, [a] is a 3D multiplayer first-person shooter maze game originally developed in 1973 and expanded in 1974. The first version was developed by high school students Steve Colley, Greg Thompson, and Howard Palmer for the Imlac PDS-1 minicomputer during a school work/study program at the NASA Ames Research Center.
3D Monster Maze is a 1981 survival horror game designed by Malcolm Evans and published by J. K. Greye Software for the ZX81. [1] Rendered using low-resolution character block "graphics", it was one of the first 3D games for a home computer, [2] and one of the first games incorporating typical elements of the genre that would later be termed survival horror.
The game exclusively shows Niko's viewpoint, employing a top-down perspective, [3] while the player is separate, referred to by the name provided in their user account. Throughout the game, the player can make Niko sleep, causing the program to close; upon reopening, a short dream sequence is played showing Niko's old life with their mother. [2 ...
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